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By Brian Goffbrian.goff@langnews.com @IEsportsNow on TwitterHall of Famers love to tell stories.Their favorite usually involves the day they got the call, confirming that they are the elite, best-of-the-best, in their given sport.They refer to it as the “greatest call” they ever received.For 2015 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Jerome Bettis, the call from the Hall just might be the second best call he received this year.From...

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Did you travel, check out an awesome festival or concert or do something else amazing this summer? We’re looking for the best 2015 summer photos. Here’s how you can submit yours:Send your favorite photo of the summer to social@langnews.com. Photos must be original work taken by you. Please include your name, hometown and a caption, including where you took the picture. Entries must be received by noon Friday, Aug. 7. Submissions will be featured in a...

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Space exploration

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades.A new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center features two pieces of debris, one from each lost shuttle, as well as poignant, personal reminders of the 14 astronauts killed in flight.It is an unprecedented collection of artifacts — the first time, in fact, that any Challenger or Columbia remains have been openly...

By Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press

Elections

REDLANDS >> While some candidates are already thinking about 2016, San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos is looking ahead to 2018.“Every day I wake up and I love my job, I do. And I love the people that are working in the DA’s office,” Ramos said in a Redlands coffee shop Friday morning. “And then (California Attorney General) Kamala Harris started talking about running for United States...

Education

REDLANDS >> Last August, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not press criminal charges against the Redlands Unified School District for failing to report the sexual relationship between

Music festivals

POMONA >> The Weeknd used a familiar combination of singing skills, stage presence and dramatic lighting to win over the HARD Summer crowd to help close out the first night of the Inland Empire music festival. The Weeknd’s set was similar to his two Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival performance in Indio earlier this year — just sans the...

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POMONA >> Dillon Francis appeared to have everyone’s attention at HARD Summer on Saturday night as he easily drew the largest crowd for the main stage. The 27-year-old Los Angeles DJ performed older songs like his 2011 track “IDGAFOS” as well as newer songs like this year’s big hit “Lean On.” Francis used a bunch of different shapes, colors, graphics and phrases on the large screens behind him to the get the audience involved...

Music festivals

POMONA >> DJ Snake surprised fans as this year’s HARD Summer mystery DJ, hitting the HARD stage at 7:35 p.m. Saturday.During Snake’s trap and dance musical performance, the video screen displayed his name and showed him as he spun as well as multiple lighting combinations.Snake, whose real name is William Grigahcine, hails from Paris and displayed his knowledge of hip-hop as he spun Rae Sremmurd’s “No Type” and DJ Khaled’s...

Music festivals

POMONA >> Schoolboy Q and Odesza had completely different sets during the first night of HARD Summer music festival — Q is a hip-hop artist, while Odesza is an indie electronic act — but both got fans screaming.Schoolboy Q, whose real name is Quincey Matthew Hanley, probably had the toughest job in getting his audience moving because he was more than 30 minutes late, but he wasted no time performing “Gangsta” to the waiting crowd, many of who left...

Music festivals

POMONA >> Tom Rowlands and Ed Simon showed fans during the first night of HARD Summer that they’re no rookies.The Chemical Brothers performed its headline set with the kind of its veteran savvy style you’d expect from the duo, with a mixture of new and old big beat and electronic dance hits.Opening with a green laser light display that appeared to hover over the crowd at the HARDer stage, The Chemical Brothers then played an extended version of 1999’s...